A new approach to Urban Innovation network and web based tools for urban citizen engagement and sustainable outcomes Shane Mitchell Global Program Manager, Urban Innovation Internet Business Solutions Group The Comparative Genetics of Cities Workshop UCL, Friday 21 st May 2010
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A new approach to Urban Innovation...Urban Innovation network and web based tools for urban citizen engagement and sustainable outcomes Shane Mitchell Global Program Manager, Urban
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Our skin is a unique piece of engineering. It has the ability to measure and sense changes in temperature and movement in air; it can size up objects and identify their make. It achieves all of this with the help of a huge number of tiny integrated chemical sensors that talk to each other through the nervous system….
A skin of similar sensitivity is enfolding the earth right now. Millions of measuring devices, including cameras, microphones, thermostats and temperature gauges, light and traffic sensors, and pollution detectors, are popping up everywhere, feeding information into increasingly fast and sophisticated computers. Experts predict that by 2010 there will be around 10,000 telemetric devices for each human on the planet.
Our planet is evolving into a single vast computer made of billions of interconnected processors and sensors. The question being asked by many is, when will this computer become self-aware?
The 4th Utility: Broadband as the New City Infrastructure
1. Infrastructure that provides intelligence2. Infrastructure that is used intelligently3. Infrastructure that is designed intelligently4. Physical & virtual environment are intertwined5. Location freedom of social and economic activities
Connected and Sustainable Socio-Economics - Urban EcoMap: San Francisco and Amsterdam
Challenge: Currently, no universal collaboration, visualization, and measurement tool exists for greenhouse gas emissions from city activities.
Solution: Develop an open source collaboration web 2.0 platform that will enable citizens and business to see the collective results of their individual climate change behaviours, aggregated by zip-code, to take actions to mitigate environmental impacts, and track the results of these actions.
Results: CUD prototype. 10+ cities in North America, Europe, and Asia are engaged, with the City and County of San Francisco taking the lead.
www.urbanecomap.orgLink to flash demo at: http://www.connectedurbandevelopment.org/connected_and_sustainable_ict_infrastructure/eco_map/multimedia
measure, especially for resources, risks and environmental markets
The Solution: A web-Platform capable to : Manage resources productively and
effectively (energy, water, land, waste, and infrastructure)
Manage risks (climate change risks related to rises in sea level, affecting coastal infrastructures, drought-related crop yield reductions, and disease proliferation and pandemics)
Manage new environmental markets (carbon, water, biodiversity, and more)
www.planetaryskin.org
“Unifying monitoring, measuring, and managing rural environments, rural to urban interconnects, and urban environments”